The Life of Samuel J. Tilden, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Life of Samuel J. Tilden, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by John Bigelow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Samuel J. Tilden, Vol. 1 of 2 That the soldiers of the United States were ordered to take possession of the legislative halls of Louisiana in 1874, and drive from the House those Representatives who were opposed to the usurpation of the executive chair by William Pitt Kellogg, the Jonathan Wild of Louisiana pol ities, who had been placed in it by the aid of a drunken and corrupt judge of a federal court. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.